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RIVER CLUB — Tim Sheredy stands on the edge of the driving range and looks out over the vast mountainous terrain.

A ping reverberates through the air beside him, as a golf ball sails off the tee, glides through the air and lands with a quiet thump in the water below.

Sheredy walks over to the tee, where a smiling Taiwanese boy awaits his guidance.

Sheredy readjusts the young boy’s grip on the club, drops his elbow into alignment and then steps back to watch as the child sends another ball into the air.

Over the next several hours, Sheredy makes his way down the range, offering advice and words of encouragement to the more than 500 golfers enrolled in the Lexus Kids of Taiwan summer camp.

Sheredy spent 17 days in Taiwan last month to head up a weeklong summer camp for children ages 6 to 15. It featured course management, fitness instruction and golf fundamentals.

He also gave seminars to Taiwanese coaches.

Sheredy, who owns the Tim Sheredy Golf Institute, became involved with Lexus Kids of Taiwan in January after one of his former students at IMG Academy, who is the lead instructor for the program, reached out to him.

Sheredy, who specializes in working with children, jumped at the opportunity. He made his first trip that month and agreed to teach the program every January and again in the summer.

“It was so nice,” Sheredy says. “It was great. All of the kids loved it, which was a great compliment for me. The kids are great kids.

“It was great to be able to experience the different culture and meet different people,” Sheredy says. “It’s a different world than here, but they still like to have fun, joke and laugh. It’s no different than working with kids here, except for the language barrier.”

Sheredy returned from his second trip to Taiwan at the end of July and immediately returned to running his golf academy.

In June, Sheredy began running the Tim Sheredy Golf Institute out of the River Club, after spending the last three years working in Orlando.

Sheredy works with players of all levels and abilities, from junior golfers to PGA and LPGA Tour players. He’s worked with players in Taiwan, Morocco, Canada, Australia, Mexico and the United States; and through all of those sessions, one thing always has stuck with Sheredy.

“Kids are kids no matter where you go,” Sheredy says.

Sheredy’s initial introduction to golf was anything but conventional. A former baseball, basketball and football player, Sheredy didn’t pick up a golf club until he was 16 years old.

He was on vacation with his best friend in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan when the two decided to give golf a try. After one swing, Sheredy was hooked.

“I knew that’s what I wanted to do for the rest of my life,” Sheredy says. “I loved it. I told my dad right away that was what I wanted to do.”

Sheredy returned home and bought a pair of golf clubs. He set out for the local golf course, which was actually just a section of a farm where a local farmer had cut some grass and installed a few greens.

Sheredy attended Ferris State University, where he enrolled in the professional golf management program. Upon graduation in 1996, the Michigan native moved to Florida. He spent a year working in Orlando before moving to Bradenton, where he spent 13 years working as a senior instructor for the David Leadbetter Academy at IMG, before moving to Orlando.

Most recently, Sheredy served as the director of instruction at Timacuan Golf and Country Club and Eagles Dream Junior Golf Academy.

During his 18-year teaching career, Sheredy has coached 43 American Junior Golf Association All-Americans and two AJGA Players of the Year. He’s also worked with a number of Tour players, including Jessica Korda, Yani Tseng, Ben An and Peter Uihlein, among others.

“I’m very fortunate and lucky to be able to bring that to this area,” Sheredy says. “I teach everyone as an individual. I try to find their strengths and weaknesses and then build a blueprint for where we are and where we want to go. I’ve had a lot of success doing that.”

Sheredy left IMG Academy in 2008; all of his students have either earned college scholarships or turned professional. Sheredy hopes to continue that trend with his students in the East County.

He offers full-time junior golf programs, as well as periodization training, individualized junior golf private lessons, adult lessons and training, clinics, camps and more.

“I would really like to continue helping junior golfers earn college scholarships and improve and advance their level of play to where they want to play,” Sheredy says. “That’s my goal here — to build a great, quality junior golf program. I also want to get a good adult program growing, as well, with good, quality instructors.”

For more information on the Tim Sheredy Golf Institute, visit tsgigolf.com.

BY THE NUMBERS
43 — The number of American Junior Golf Association All-Americans with whom Sheredy has worked.
17 — The number of days Sheredy spent last month in Taiwan while working with the Lexus Kids of Taiwan program.
13 — The number of years Sheredy spent working as a senior instructor for the David Leadbetter Academy at IMG.
16 — The age Sheredy was when he picked up a golf club for the first time.
18 — The number of years Sheredy has been teaching golf.

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